diskutil doesn't see new HDD

Hello,
My old HDD crashed recently and I had to order a new harddrive. I installed the HD and everything but it doesn't show up in the disk utility or the installer.

First I thought I bought a broken harddrive or there is some problem with the mini. But the I booted into xubuntu from a livecd on the very same mini. And there I can see the HDD fine; I can format it, read write ... whatever I want to do.

I already tried writing zeros all over it in linux, formatting with different partition tables. But it won't show up in the installer.

Anyone can help me with this?


Thanks!

i now installed snow leopard via firewire on the mini. it still doesn't see the hdd (stop sign when booting up; no hdd in diskutil when starting from cd).

Please, can anyone help?

Thanks for your reply. It is a 2006 mini 1.1 (core duo 1.66GhZ). The harddrive is a standard Samsung 2.5" 5400 60GB SATA Drive. I bought it to replace my failed fujitsu HD.

I tried installing Tiger from the original CD, and also tried Leopard and snow leopard from their repective retail DVD. But all have the same problem - diskutil only shows the CD/DVD.

I don't have a HD enclosure. However I can format and access the actual harddrive in the same mini when I boot xubuntu from a live-cd. And yes - I can also access th HD fine when the mini is in target mode. Thus, I'm pretty sure that the HD is not defect.

I managed to install OSX (snow leopard) using my MBP and putting the mini in target disk mode. Now when the mini starts it shows the stop sign after a while instead of the question mark folder. I still can't see the HD in diskutil though when I start from DVD.

Well - I was thinking about hardware failure too. But why can I access the HD in linux and via target disk mode? If it would be windows or linux I would suspect a missing driver but with Macs that seems unlikely...

Cmd-the-World said:

I don't know what exactly is your cause of trouble but I think I might be hardware related (maybe there is a pinched wire or something). Since you managed to install Snow Leopard try and run the Apple Hardware Test maybe there is a faulty hardware.

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